After working in his father's office for several years, Pronk (on the advice of the scholar and art connoisseur Lambert ten Kate) started to take lessons in drawing and painting from the painter Jan van Houten (1679–1713).
Cornelis Johannes van Houten | Cornelis Tromp | Cornelis de Bie | Cornelis Vreeswijk | Jacob Cornelis Matthieu Radermacher | Cornelis Matelief de Jonge | Cornelis Kruseman | Cornelis Johannes Kieviet | Cornelis de Bruijn | ''William Fitzwilliam, Second Lord Fitzwilliam of Liffer'', Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen | Pieter Cornelis Dommersen | Pieter Cornelis Boutens | Johan Cornelis van der Wijck | Cornelis Zitman | Cornelis van Tienhoven | Cornelis Schrevel | Cornelis Marinus Pleyte | Cornelis Lely | Cornelis Jol | Cornelis Johannes van Doorn | Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen | Cornelis Hulsman | Cornelis Elout | Cornelis Eliza Bertus Bremekamp | Cornelis Drebbel | Cornelis de Wael | Cornelis de Bondt | Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen | Cornelis Bontekoe | Adolph Cornelis van Bruggen |